Synth Foods, Inc. partnership negotiations with Search & Destroy Agency

[SimonBlack]

The Luxury Liner "Shetland", Gaia Orbital, Edinburgh System, Bretonia

Luxury Liner Shetland isn't a cheap place, but the credits aren't everything here. Passage on the Liner required special pass card and arrangments. You may have enough credits to book the place, but it also requires acquitances to cross the barriers placed by beauraucracy. Sometimes they can take months, even years. Luckily for Graham he had the credits and he had the influence.

Graham Knight was lying on luxurious bed in massage room, awaiting services with a towel on his back. A bowl of grapes was put in front of him and he had already started picking first cluster when somebody knocked on the door.

It was the very same Orbital Spa representative that met George Graves. Synth Foods have paid her to accept their guests aboard the Liner. It was a special occasion after all, first impression was crucial. She turned her head aside as Graham winded round in his towel.

"What is it?" - he said.

"Excuse me, sir, but most of the guests have already arrived. Representatives are here and another Synth Foods convoy moored with the Liner. Mr. Vero has just exited his quarters. He will be in place for the negotiations soon."

"Vero still travels by Trains? Where's the style in that?" - Graham mumbled - "Very well then. Let's not let them wait."

Graham picked a grape from the bunch and carried out to the dressing chambers. He was a snob and a spoiled one at that, but he has never been late into any appointment. It was only ten minutes before he shook hands with John Vero, a colleague of his, before entering the hall to wait for the representatives of Search and Destroy Agency, more famous (and infamous) under the name of Strontium Dogs.

"Bah! Bounty Hunters..." - He thought.

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